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18 That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it];

19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, [a]through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses [b]mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] [c]unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and [d]become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!

20 Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]—

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 3:19 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  2. Ephesians 3:19 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  3. Ephesians 3:19 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  4. Ephesians 3:19 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people,(A) to grasp how wide and long and high and deep(B) is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge(C)—that you may be filled(D) to the measure of all the fullness of God.(E)

20 Now to him who is able(F) to do immeasurably more than all we ask(G) or imagine, according to his power(H) that is at work within us,

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